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Show THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND ing a gentleman. Then, In my blind anger, 1 found what patient search had notj disclosed. I threw the hammer' fiom me in a fit tf temper and it struck one of the square blocks in the cement floor which gave forth a hollow sound. I was on my knees in an Instant, mj fingers searchiug the crarks, and draw ing down close I could feel a current of air, slight but unmistakable, against j j -- h, now It was an august now sAhetu-- from Wagner, and Ofcally Mendelssohn's spring song won Ui cold, dark chapel to light and Harsstb with Its exultant notes. She ceased sud tcnlv with a little other; sigh and struck her hands together, s she ieached for the place was cold" up to put out the Hghts 1 stepped forward to the chancel steps 'Please allow me to do that for . my fdee you" Tile cement square, though exactly She turned toward me, gathering a like the others in the cellar floor, was cape about her evidently only an imitation, with an1 "Oh, It's you. is it-- she asked, lookopening beneath. ing about quickly. "I don't remember e block was fitted into Its place that you were Invited " By MEREDITH NICHOLSON with a nicety that certified to the skill "I didn't know 1 was coming myri "THE MAIN CHANCE ZELDA of the hand that had adjusted it. I self," I remarked truthfully, lifting my DAMZION." Elc. broke a blade of my pocket knife try- hand to the lamp. ing to pry it up. but, in a moment, I "That is my opinion of you, that Co UuTlgt UK, bj succeeded, and found it to be in reality youre a rather uuexpected person. CHAPTER XI. Continued. a trap door, hinged to the substantial But thank you. very much. "Well, he exclaimed, " this has part of the floor She showed no disposition to proA current been very pleasant, but I must run I of cool, fresh air, the long the interview, but hurried, toward have just been over to see Morgan, same that had surprised me in the the door, and reached the vestibule bethe caretaker, at the resort village night, struck my face as I lay flat and fore I came up with her. The poor fellow accidentally shot him- Ieered into the opening The lower You Can't go any farther, Mr. Glent CANDLES self yesterday cleaning his gun or something of that sort, and he has an ugly hole In his arm that will shut him up for a month or worse. He gave me an errand to do for him. He's a conscientious fellow and wished me to wire for him to Mr. Pickering that he'd been hurt, but was attending to his duties. Pickering owns a house at the farther end of the colony and Morgan has charge of it. You know Pickering, of course? I looked clerical my neighbor straight In the eye, a trifle coldly, perhaps. I was wondering why Morgan, with whom I had enjoyed a duel In my own cellar only a few hours before, should be rexrting his Injury to Arthur Pickering "I think I have 3een Morgan about here, I said. Oh, yesl HeA a woodsman and a hunter our Nimrod of the lake. A good sort, very likely! I dare say. He has sometimes brought me ducks during the seasod. "To be sure! They shoot ducks at night those Hoosier hunters so I passage was as black as pitch, and I lighted a lautern I had brought with me. found that wooden steps gave safe conduct below and Went down. I stood erect in the passage and had several inches to spare. It extended both ways, running back under the foundations of the house, and cut squarely under the park before the house and toward the school wall. The air grew steadily fresher, until, after I had gone about two hundred yards, I reached a point where the wind seemed to beat down on me from above. I put up my hands and found two openings about three yards apart, through which the air sucked steadily. I moved out of the current with a chuckle In my throat and a grin on my face. I had passed under the gate in the school wall, and I knew now why the piers arm, she said, and waited as though understood Straight to make sure before us through the wood and beyond the school buildings the sunset faded sullenly. Night was following fast upon the gray twilight and already the bolder planets were- - aflame In the sky. The path led straight ahead beneath the black boughs. I might perhaps walk to the dormitory, or whatever you call It, I s,ald. I'm late and Thank you, no! haven't time to bother wttji you. It'a against the rules, you know, for us to receive visitors. She stepped out upon the path. But I'm not a caller; Im Just a neighbor! And I owe you several calls, anyhow." She laughed but did not pause and I followed a pgee behind her. 1 He laughed as he shook himself into , OF PART! I est--ri- , ' nie-s.t- ge NU-s- ' ur' pro-grt- s . tbt l ht 7. about I said, glad of 1 the sympathy and cheer that seemed to emanate from hla stalwart figure. I threw on my overcoat and walked " to the gate with him and saw him harry toward the village with long strides. ' . 1 - , CHAPTER XII. k 1 The Weber club of Ogden ha taken Ilavtlen Minlsti r I.eger declares that the resolution in the bland Is now ap the matter of. establishing an Independent smelter hear Ogden. over. Preparations ate tow in progress Fire ini he wholesale machine! y district of U'.icugo caused damages of or an Immediate resumption of operof Vigorous Delineation i ations at the Nevada, acITS.oru, doers Receive Apprival of The prohibition bill wa Killed In the cording1 10 the l.vbn, Nevada, Times. dembe- - of Congres. There are In Mexico at the present lower hoii'f of the South Carolina .leg.tine at least twelve good Blzed smeltislature bv a vote of 64 to 51!. Former I tilted States Senator War- ing plant in operation at various and central Tkf igton The special message ner Miller of New York has made an points In the northern ft tie treat nt to congress on th assignment tor the benefit of his cred- dates. t th. employ 11 s liabtlit ail itor. The greater part of 270,000 000 Slid tajuet.nm In labor eases was Two thousand unemployed men pounds of copper exported from the prW'XUd in the senate a few minutei marched to the city hall in Detroit one United States dflring the past fdttr or flr U 0 cloek on Friday. When Mr da last week and begged the major five months has gone Into the hands of consuming Interests, the speculatlAttUslbiant seereta-- v to the presi to provide them with work. flest. ntei e! the chandler there wai ors taking an amount much less than BeadThirty eight collieries of the bat a km lftil of senators present. The generally supposed. em& Iron Coal Pa.. company, ing, fW bVslilent at once tore open tht Those who are in a position to know ploying 30 ,00o men, which have been U W containing the 1Jle glncp January 23, resumed wort claim that the Bullfrog country t&k kfcled it to the assistant score of kind for the ready getting biggest week last 11(1 tarT dthe senate, who Immediately now that the ,abo,r an(j A- -l,. Rinas, cashier of the First Na- of eared h lb 'tiled copies be fll'anlal , reading com-Minn., tlonal hank of not th U wlil to were delivered by Mr. milled suicide Appleton. a lhat UP exlent' Krtal by blowing out his Lattu kd were illsti llnited to tin- - senl)H ,on? comlng. while a with brains temporshotgun ator . Superintendent Georon of the Gold artlv laue ttreonelu-lo- n of the reading ot mine at Mullan, Idaho on Jan- has The body of Quids, the novelist, Ik Aaue Senator Davis of Arkan-125 received a telegram Instruct-a- t been Interred In the English cemetery pnaptlv moved that lo don copies him r!BUmei,t!ratlin,S.aB.al Florence, and the grave is marked of th aeisage he a as public onlv at the earliest possible moment and printed by a wooden cross. Oulda died to run at full biaet. Work was reIn the direst poverty. A reading of tin,' message stitut'd the following day. Janie'S Fades Howe, philanthropist In tile house numerous mein The Mammoth Asphalt company Itinerant friend the and of unemployed frf W heanl audibly to exciatm, last filed articles of Incorporation Is planning a convention In St. Loula, ,MOMausual "This Is red hot. etc. week. This concern is controlled by In to he the attended by unemployed . .The vigorous denuneia-Uoa number of Salt Lake Greek business the east and southwest. of wrongdoers was greeted with, mn Prl,prty owned is located and Albert Honey loud tpflause, as was his defense ol George Barley. In Argyle canyon, Wasatch county, Emil (ashler, farmers living near federal judges who punish offender and Dry canyon, Carbon county. Princeton, Iowa, were killed by an tor visions of the law. The Nevada Hills Mining company, In a ! The buggy frequency of the applause In. electric car which struck t . if Wonder, Nevada, which has paid were which driving they CrMsHis the reading proceeded Tbs to thei amount of 8400,000 dividends to will be A bill, the effect of which hJ Ofonversation over the message while sinking a development shaft, gnbeldef and the members followed tax dowries glvenjay New York state ueeds a railroad to get Its ore to the to etsry hrd. But the elimax . came women under their marriage The present method ls exwas Introduced la the New imeiter. th-bR,th reading was concluded. ore being taken out by pensive, 'Wltiogt regard to party, the mem York legislature last week. is claimed the company teams It William J. Bryan was unanimously will builvl a railroad of Us own. bft budly applauded, cheered, ' tfrumptf their desks and gave other endorsed for the presidential nominaat of Work at Giroux, the sinking evidences of their approval of the doc- tion at a Join? caucus of the Demoa ument After a moments Bllence the cratic member of the West Virginia Ely, wag resumed last week, after were who a all week of ior aollday ayplan broke out again, several mem senate and house ot delegates. . In the strenuous labor of ben, Relucting Democrats, arising from Nine miners met death in the New mgaged three entombed men who the tkdr fats and clapping their hands. River colliery, known to miners aa the came out on Saturday, Jan. 1L It la nillea Theiessage then, on motion of Mr. lower Boone mine, forty-fiva month will elapse beexpected n to New York, was referred from Charleston, W. Va., In an explo-ilo- fore Piynaff is completely rehablU shaft the the coimlttee on the state of tha that partly wrecked the mine. tated. Union. The Missouri supreme court has dereseent Oil company, The Star cided the law requiring that free reR.AG SOLD FOR 4.250. In the Virgin river field, has operating s ship-perturn transportation be given to finished Its second well and got with each carload of livestock by j)ist at Used Balaktava Wfcjletugle Bring the railroads of that state la unconstit- oil in the first producing strata. Oil was tapped In the first well at-- ' a ths Sum of 500. utional. depth of 590 feet, and the name strata Izmim. The flag of the American have occurred was floods Terrific cut In the second well, about 1,000 Balak-Iat ' and throughout Bavaria, owing to the sud- feet west ot the first one, at a depth most two valuable of the $fle, den thaw. Traffic has been suspended of a collection of antlqui-tlf- on many of the branch railroad, a of 815 feet WV rifle The Utah Mine oompany sold forty-eigtht belonged to the late T. G. large portion of the tracks being In- tons ot. ore from its Fish Mlidlffook, were secured on Thurs-- undated. property last week tor dWthe auction sale of the collec-- The Alva (Oklahoma) Bank of Com Springs The lot assayed 134 ounces The ti ti American buyers. Chess, merc() wlth 10,000 capital stock, la cent lead and 38 cents 50 per1 silver, erflag was captured In the fight dosed, and Cashier Lou WesttaU U In gold per ton. The ore brought a in British 1813, Shannon fe ship missing. He la charged with looting terms of the comgerd wa good bidding for the U, lngtitutim of practically all of It premium, under the panys contract with the smelter, .of;. dand torn piece of bunting, Ik I deposits. gl.50 a ton. iVcltk of which U vouched foi j TIm, executive committee of the Cae The 'Communlcstion of the Utah v In ); written history of ownership Bej;le hero fun(j commission has given Mine Owners association to- the sin- lldshlpman Grundy of the royal 125 000 to widowi and children of melting companies, in which an ef- the nat cstde ihto possession of th I yje 250 miners killed last month In the fort was made to have conditions In . nearly a century ago. The flai mln diHSlter at Jacob Creek. favor of the smelters stretched as w$ old .for $4,250 to a London arl I Pennsylvania. much as possible that the mine oper t de$-- , whoslso purchased the bugli sTwo japaneBe baT come ashore at ator might get a better mode of- treat-- ; ' I fod K), Jess .than, half what Mr. Mid Punta Arenaa from the British steam-dld- r ment than that at present in force, 1 ' J4 - v PH 9' It ten years ago. i er xhey are iupp08ed to be very likely to bear good fruit. r wa this Instrument that the or pregent ,n of In the V work Active building Arenag for pur. t a I , pose of observing the passage of the railroad line into Wonder and Fair-thotsitUe of Balaklava was sounded. Araer1can fleet view, Nevada, is expected to itart at calmschool any time within the next sixty days. children hundred Three At A 'to Blow Up Family of Min school building The only question Involved apparentof tbs out marched ly in Colorado. at Hopper, Neb., when it was discos ly is one of route. There are three iSiperlnfehdent The residence ol ered that the structure was a mass of possible entries to these two disA. A sander, superintendent of the Seven teachers cleverly di- tricts, a branch from Fallon probably flames. being the most logical route. Fadfdclc mine Of the Colorado Fuel rected the fire drill. A Jrbi company, twenty miles west It now seems certain that a railroad A passenger train on the Salt Lake ef ffllr-- city, was partly wrecked by I rauad tngde 9f the city limits of will be built from Armstead by way an cltpleston of dynamite early Frl- Ij0e Angeles struck a Brooklyn avenue of Junction and down the Lehl valley d 4 1 the explosive had been placed car of the Pactflc electric line. The to Salmon City during the present A bed room in which three conductor of the car was killed and year. ' The road has been surveyed ui are now being' purAll the In-- Bix passengers Injured, and rights-of-wacbldpefi were sleeplng. The completion ot the road A mob of twenty citizens of Livs chased. mflpflfof the house escaped with sllAt JhJuries. U is believed that the 0ak, Cal., made a raid on two bouse will mean much to thla portion ot oxfffen was caused by miners whooccuped by BeVenty Hindus; who had Idaho, especially " from a mining .. ha een discharged. been discharged from the employ oi standpoint. The ore shipments at the Montgom- the Southern Pacific and ordered the ( APS ON THE DEFENSIVE. Hindus to leave town. The Hindu ery Shoshone at Bullfrog, Nevada, U have been Increased to from forty to went. MB ry Preparation Not Directed fifty tons a day, and It Is probable An official of the Krupp gun work Ajalnat Any 8ingle Nation. a still further increase will be that whose name la not given, has been ar The . $:lo. At a sectional committee rested at Essen on the charge of be made as development proceeds. i product has m ng of the djet on Friday, M. traylng military secrets. It la declared value of the shipping , Oil was waked against whom were that he sold the plans of certain gun never been stated positively, but It la that It will averfoi generally understood Jap 's military preparations directed. which the Krupps are building to ton. the $200 around age ir of War Tcrauchi replied, say- Italy. be not will Utah t! ial represented at the they were not directed against The Lisbon newspapers announce I International congress to be Mining evento Ingle nation, but agdinst that Ant0nlo Almeld. one of the repub held at Madison Garden, New Square bn the Pacific, where Japan has jcan leaders, has been placed under York-CitThis Is the, summer. next to line coast from Saghalien Sj'bflfl arrpRt. in connection with the recent Governor reached by determination FMtnosa. attempt to overthrow (he monarchy. conference with the a ' after Cutler, j sensa a arrest has caused great GsNfisId. Engineer Knocked on thg The leading mining operators of the state. The' last legislature Appropriated ' Head. 1 Poland Russian ijUbini $2,000 for the proposed Utah exhibit (Wdfldld, Nev. Charles F. Hlne, a jjave uncarthed a band of robbers but this amount is regarded as inengineer, was knocked on the p0fi,d entIrply of W0II1Pn and the lead. sufficient hs with a gqn and brutally as ppJ bave been taken into custody, The manager of the Siegel Consol- robbed Friday night on satltef women are said to be responsi- Idated Mining company, which has MjF'r.Btyeet, within a block of the hie for a long series of Wghway rob - , bpen operating in the Silver Canyon Hatel Casey.. The crime .was mining district at Siegel,- forty :nilles 11 Oclock In the evening, fM According to the Mexican Herald, a nor(b 0f (bB Steptoe smelter, foi the wtfe Hlne was on his ay home trade war on a large scale Is soon to the mines and jrom pagt plght yeara Hh Could give but a vacuo d -- scrip he fought In the republic of Mexico, j whcb have yearly been produced tli of his assailants, and thcie Is Oil the contestants being the Standard many carloads of high grade ore, U little. dance of their detection. Minct strwt .leads from the Hotel Casev to company and the firm of Pearsonnow& securing additional miners in order The former concern to sjart more vigorous development thfr passenger depot of the Clark Fon. Ltd controls the oil business of the repub- ot that property. road, nd is unllghted by the city. lic The OJuela mine, at Mapimi. lu DuThe Prince of Monaco has given pub- rango, Is 3,000 feet deep and has been tovgmQp Threatened With Death. notice that he will not be respon-lbl- operated for 300 years, it is s noticefioftland,' Ore. A special dispatch lic for the debts incurred by his son able fact that the majority of the to th Oregonian from Troutdale, 1,0 uls, who is at present living a gay E. Governor Hates present great silver and gold-minthat George Or, latest of !;(' Mekico are those having records Chamberlain has received an anony life In the French capital. The was the abductloa ot. extending into the past for a century moss , letter demanding that John exploit bis natural son from the child's ot, further. BranUn be released from the Oregon mother, ' ' large independent smelter., will, pisitestlary, and threatens, If the , The lower house, Of the Oklahoma be erected on the site of the probably of Governo ate r refuses, the go has pas'sei a measure of legislature LJfqb- plant at Ogden as the result Stof Idaho hlbltlug the smoking.' or Cigarettes 4a a meeting of independent tnlne- own6h the state and providing for the in flic-- " ers. of Salt Lake and representative,,, coi - -tion of 'a perialtyif 'not less than $5 Ogden men st the Webe'r club-- la nor more than $25 for each separate den last week, whon way and means Or offense. "It Is patterned after the Indi- were discussed. Mr ana law. RRESPECT1VE e to laugh with him. By the way, I forgot to get Pickerings address from Morgan. If you happen to have It I said. "With pleasure, Alexis Building, Broadway, New York. Good! That's easy to remember, he said, smiling and turning up his coat collar. "Don't forget me; I'm quartered In a hermits cell back of the chapel, and I believe we can find many matters of Interest to talk I Explore a Passage. I found him Bates! busy replenishing the candlesticks In the library, It seemed to me that he was always poking about with an armful of canthere are a good many queer dles, things In this world, but I guess you're one of the queerest. I don't mind telling you that there are times when I think you a thoroughly bad lot, and then again I question my judgment and dont give you credit for being much more than a doddering fool. He was standing under a ladder beneath the great crystal chandelier and looked down upon me with that patient Inquiry that is so appealing In a dog in, say, the eyes of an Irish setter, when you accidentally step on his tall. Yes, Mr. Glenarm, he replied humbly. Now, I want you to grasp this idea that Im going to dig into this old shell top anJ bottom; I'm going to blow It up with dynamite. If I please; and if I catch you spying on me or reporting my doings to my enemies, or engaging In . any questionable performances whatever. Ill hang you between the posts out there In the school wall do you understand? so that the sweet Sisters of St. Agatha and the dear little school girls and the chaplain and all the rest will shudder through all their lives at the Very thought of you." and his Certainly, Mr. Glenarm, tone was the same h would have used if I had asked him to pass me the matches, and under my breath I consigned him to the hardest tortures of the fiery pit. Now, as to Morgan Yes, sir. What possible business do you suppose he has with Mr. Pickering?" I demanded. Why, sir, thats clear enough. Mr. Pickering owns a house up the lake, he got it through your grandfather. Morgan has the care of it, sir. and I "Very plausible. Indeed! sent him off to his work. After luncheon I went to the end of the corridor, and began to sound the walls. They were as solid as rock, and responded dully to the strokes of the hammer. I sounded them on both aides, retracing my steps to the stairway, becoming more rfnd more impaor stupidity. There tient at my was every reason why, I should know my own house, and yet a stranger and an outlaw ran through it with amazing daring. After an boors idle search I returned to the end of the corridor, repeated all my previous soundings, and, I fear, indulged in language unbecom MINES AND MINING , , his greatcoat. "That's possible, though unsportsmanlike. Hut we don't have to look a gift mallard in the eye. We laughed together. It was easy it .NEWS SUMMARY special message . hear! Im confident of Md - 1- - t. m Oh Yea, Im Terribly Wicked, Squire Glenarm. that held it had been built so high, they were hollow aiAl were the means of sending fresh air into the tunnel. When I had traveled about twenty yards more I felt a slight vibration accompanied by a muffled roar, and almost immediately came to a rough wooden stair that marked the end of the passage. I bad no means of judging directions, but I assumed that I was well within the school park. I climbed the steps and In a moment stood blinking, my lantern in hand, in a small, floored room. Overhead the tumult and thunder of an organ explained the tremor and roar I had heard below. I was the crypt of St. Agatha's chapel. The Inside of the door by which I had entered was a part of the wainscoting of the room, and the opening was wholly covered with a map of the Holy Ind. It was all very strange and Interesting. I looked at my watch and found that It was five o'clock, but I resolved to go Into the chapel before going home. The way up was clear enough, and was soon in the vestibule. I opened the door, expecting to find a service in progress; but the Ilttle-ehtir- ch wa? I the empty save where, at the right chancel, an organist was filling the church with the notes of an exultant march. Cap In hand I stole forward, and sank down in one of the pews. A lamp over the organ keyboard gave the only light In the chapel, and made an aureole about her head, about the uncovered head of Olivia Gladys Armstrong! I smiled as I recognized her and smiled, too, as I remembered her' name. But the joy she brought to the music, the happiness In her face as she raised it In the minor harmonies, her isolation, marked by the little tie of light against the dark background of the choir, these things touched and moved me, and I bent forward, my arm upon the pew In front of me, watching and listening with a kind of awed wonder. There was no pause In the outpour-mof the melody. She changed atops. and manuals with swift fingers and passed from one compoeitlon to an- g I hope you dont think for .a mo ment that ! chased rabbit on your side of the fence in the hope of mee-inyou, do you, Mr. Glenarm? Be it far from me! I'm glad I came, though, for I liked your muale Immensely. Im In earnest; I think 11 quite wonderful, Miss Armstrong. She paid no heed to me. And I hope I may promise mysell the pleasure of hearing you often. You are very kind About my poor music, Mr. Glenarm; hut aa I'm going away I felt my heart sink a trifle. 8h was the only amusing person I had met at Glenarm, andthe thought pi losing her gave a daAer note to the bleak landscape. Thats really too bad! And Just when we were gettlag acquainted! And I was comlnfc to church Sunday to hear You play anfl to $ray for snow, so you'd come over jbften to chase S rabbits! This. I thought, softened her heart At any rate her tone Ranged. "I dont play for .aprvlces; theyre afraid to let am for fear I'd rnn comic Deum! opera tunes iqjo the "How shocking! "Do you know, her Mrj Glenarm, tone became confldenpal nod. her paoe we call you the squire, at slackened. St. Agatha's, and the lord of the manor, and names like that! All the girls are perfectly crazy about you. They'd be wild If the thought I talked with you, clandestinely, Is that the way you pronounce it? Anything you say and any way you say it satisfies me, I replied. "That's ever so nice of you, she said, mockingly again. I felt foolish and guilty. She would probably get roundly scolded If the grave sisters learned of her talks with me, and very likely I should win their hearty contempt.. But I did not turn back. "I hope the reason youre leaving I hesitated. Isn't j Til conduct? Oh, yes; I'm terribly wicked. Squire Glenarm! They're sending me off. 1- a-- . , (TO BE CONTINUED.) , - y . - X 1 - com-mbln- .uvj -- e es ilis L m, - pro-iber- |